VOBLA - DRY EVISCERATED SALTED FISH, 5.29 oz. (150 g), UPC 4606495-001308 --- Product is…

Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 January 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The processed fish product was found to be uneviscerated based on FDA inspectional findings.

The record

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Product

VOBLA - DRY EVISCERATED SALTED FISH, 5.29 oz. (150 g), UPC 4606495-001308 --- Product is vacuum packed and consists of salted dry caspian roach fish.

UPC

4606495001308

Reason for recall

The processed fish product was found to be uneviscerated based on FDA inspectional findings.

Recalling firm

Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc.

Firm location

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1294-2017

Quantity

UNKNOWN

Distribution

NY and CA

Initiated

25 April 2016

Reported by FDA

25 January 2017

Terminated

18 January 2017

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

UPC 4606495-001308 and no other coding

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
• The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
• This is one of 2 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 25 April 2016 to termination on 18 January 2017. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
• The distribution pattern names 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 9 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fish and fishery products are the one food category with their own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 123, because the hazards are species-specific: histamine in scombroid fish, ciguatera in reef fish, and Listeria in cold-smoked products.

Named in the distribution pattern: New York, California. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other fish and seafood recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 3 records for Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc.

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